Nottingham Forest must "do more" to get themselves into a position in games where questionable refereeing decisions won’t deny them victory.

That is the message from Ryan Yates, who was hugely disappointed to see Martin O’Neill’s side denied victories at West Brom and Preston, by controversial decisions from match officials Lee Mason and Tim Robinson, respectively.

The midfielder was as frustrated as anyone to see potential victories turned into draws by those key moments.

But the 21-year-old says it is down to the Reds to create more chances and score more goals, to ensure such moments do not impact on them so harshly, if they do happen again in the future.

“We need to do more; we need to create more chances and get ourselves into a position where decisions like this don’t matter,” said Yates, who was at the centre of the disallowed goal from Joe Lolley, when he was very harshly judged to have fouled keeper Declan Rudd.

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“We need to be winning games like this, if we want to be up there. We can’t just be hoping for decisions to go our way, we need to do more.

“Against West Brom we could have put the game to bed, because we had a few other chances, including one for (Lewis) Grabban, where we could have extended our lead.

“We need to make things happen ourselves; we need to get into a position where decisions like that do not matter, definitely. We need to make sure that the result does not depend on whether the referee gives a decision for or against us.”